Page, Hollie, Roddy and Alex, Angelina, and Diane and James mention care system
When did you start to have trouble looking after your child?
“my daughter wouldn’t stop crying and there was nothing I could do that would appease her and I threw her on to the bed, not very hard and slapped her accros her stomach, both which I shouldn’t have done and I felt really really bad”
How did it feel having your child taken into care?
“I actually went insane when I gave him up because I do love him so much”
Do you know why you were taken in to care?
“I know why I was taken into care, it was because my mum was a druggie and a alcoholic and she doesn’t know how to look after children”
“if, say for instance there had been a Thai child waiting in… in our area, for adopting, we would never have been allowed to adopt that child. Now, that seems a little but crazy to us”
How have your adoptive parents embraced your heritage?
“And we’re still really, really close now and to me they are my mum and dad. But… I can appreciate that, for some cultures, and certainly some kind of ethnicities, it would be easier to, sort of, be raised within that kind of culture.”
How did it feel having your child taken into care?
“I actually went insane when I gave him up because I do love him so much”
Do you know why you were taken in to care?
“...he refused to allow her to go back unless she gave you up for adoption. Because he couldn’t deal with two children that weren’t his basically. ”